"The study of the patterns produced by vibrating bodies has a venerable history. One of the earliest to record that an oscillating body displayed regular patter

"The study of the patterns produced by vibrating bodies has a venerable history. One of the earliest to record that an oscillating body displayed regular patterns was Galileo Galilei. In Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), he wrote: As I was scraping a brass plate with a sharp iron chisel in order to remove some spots from it and was running the chisel rather rapidly over it, I once or twice, during many strokes, heard the plate emit a rather strong and clear whistling sound: on looking at the plate more carefully, I noticed a long row of fine streaks parallel and equidistant from one another. Scraping with the chisel over and over again, I noticed that it was only when the plate emitted this hissing noise that any marks were left upon it; when the scraping was not accompanied by this sibilant note there was not the least trace of such marks. " http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cymatics These patterns are also drawn on tiles in the Rosslyn Chapel and are thought to be displaying music: http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Rosslyn_Chapel_music_score_'decoded' http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Rosslyn_Chapel_music_score_'deco...